Here's a photo of the coach, 773, with the BURLINGTON lettering -->
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And why would Metra care? They didn't pay for it!
Ryan Gash
Oak Park, IL
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "o_rrman" <mofferman@...> wrote:
>
> Those who yearn for the old CB&Q days may be interested in this little
flashback I experienced tonight.
>
> I thought I was seeing things on BNSF Metra commuter train 1259 when I
glanced up at the usually bare spot above the doors of the old 700
series car I was boarding and saw classic lettering that looked like it
was from the old CB&Q days. Lo and behold I discovered that two cars in
the train were lettered in the old 'Zephyr' font as follows: Car 779 -
"BNSF Railway", Car 742 - "Burlington". Given that one of the cars
referred to BNSF I am thinking that the lettering is new. Another 700
series car on the train still had the blank spot so I am not sure if the
two cars were unique - lettered for a movie, commercial or something -
or if this is something that will be applied (one can hope) to all of
the old series cars.
>
> Either way it made me smile to see the old stainless steel fluted cars
lettered like the old days. I will try to get photos posted but since
it's dark in the morning and dark at night it may be a while before I
get a good shot.
>
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